This week, President Barack Obama will make a historic visit to Hiroshima: the first place on earth where human beings were subject to the devastation of a nuclear weapon, dropped by the United States. He will be the first sitting U.S. president to make the trip. It’s worth celebrating this bit of real progress: that a sitting U.S. president will for the first time stand in contemplation at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. This is the president who in 2009 stood before a crowd in Prague to declare his commitment to seek “a world without nuclear weapons.” It is also the president who in 2009, on...

All at once, I changed jobs and our part-time babysitter moved on after three terrific years: the scramble was on for loving, enriching child care at a price that didn’t break our family’s budget. Maybe you’ve been there. Maybe it was 30 years ago, or maybe just last year. Maybe you’re not a parent at all. You don’t have to be – turns out preschool is good for everybody. Here are five reasons we need universal preschool right now: Preschool is good for kids. Whether or not we need childcare to allow us to work, many of us parents choose to send our kids to preschool. Why? Because we have a...